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===== Discussion of this Source ===== | ===== Discussion of this Source ===== | ||
- | Matvei Liubavskii was a Russian historian. | + | Matvei Liubavskii was a Russian historian. |
====== Pages 119-120 ====== | ====== Pages 119-120 ====== | ||
+ | ===== Notes ===== | ||
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+ | * [JJ's observation: | ||
+ | * Non-Jews did not venture far from their land. They were interested in trade and lease-holding, | ||
+ | * Jews were mobile, entrepreneurial and agile. | ||
+ | * The Lithuanian aristocracy lived beyond its means. | ||
+ | * Lithuanian aristocracy borrowed from Jews and then allowed Jews to collect income for the treasure, in exchange for a percentage of that income. | ||
+ | * Lithuanian aristocracy trusted Jews to keep fair accounting, because Jews knew this was in their interest. | ||
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===== Russian Text ===== | ===== Russian Text ===== | ||
обязались сообща выставлять на войну 1000 всадников. Но скоро эта повинность была снята с них, и они обязаны были заодно с мещанами тех городов, | обязались сообща выставлять на войну 1000 всадников. Но скоро эта повинность была снята с них, и они обязаны были заодно с мещанами тех городов, | ||
- | Чем же объяснить это преуспение еврейства в Литовско-Русском государстве? | + | Чем же объяснить это преуспение еврейства в Литовско-Русском государстве? |
- | Литовско-русский господарь рано научился ценить евреев, | + | Литовско-русский господарь рано научился ценить евреев, |
- | ===== English Translation ===== | + | </ |
- | were promising to bring around 1000 warriors up to the war. But soon this obligation was revoked away from them, and they were obliged along with parvenus of these cities where they have been living to pay regular and special taxes as well as carry out general labour conscriptions. In XVI century Jews crowded almost all the cities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Judaic commonalities or " | + | < |
+ | ===== English Translation ===== | ||
- | How to explain | + | were promising to bring around 1000 warriors up to the war. But soon this obligation was revoked away from them, and they were obliged along with parvenus of these cities where they have been living to pay regular |
- | Rich parvenus of Vilna, Koven, Polock, Vitebsk and Kiev buying properties along with peasants and serving | + | |
- | Lithuanian-Russian | + | How to explain this extreme Jewish success in the Lithuanian-Russian |
+ | Lithuanian-Russian rulers soon learned to value Jews as tax-farmers(tax collectors? | ||
+ | </ |
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